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Hagia Sophia (Turkish: Ayasofya; Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized: Hagía Sophía; Latin: Sancta Sapientia; lit. ' Holy Wisdom '), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque,(Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi; Greek: Μεγάλο Τζαμί της Αγίας Σοφίας), is a mosque and former church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Articles relating to the Hagia Sophia, its history, and depictions.The last of three church buildings to be successively erected on the site by the Eastern Roman Empire, it was completed in 537 AD.
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This omphalos dates from the Middle Byzantine, some five hundred years after the Hagia Sophia's if it is indeed an original feature, and is completely symmetrical in design. Stylistically, the interiors of Hagia Sophia have been categorized as a "jeweled style". [3] The materials utilized were selected to retain and reflect light.
The Basilica of Hagia Sophia of Edessa (Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, meaning "Holy Wisdom") was an ancient Early Christian church and later a Byzantine basilica. It was constructed in the early 3rd century, destroyed in a flood in 525, and restored as a Byzantine basilica by Justinian I. It was supposedly the first site of the appearance of the ...